The Sun. — London, England, 1838-08-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. i'be Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited her Majesty yester day at the New Palace. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of her Majesty. T he Queen h onoure d t h e per f ormance o f P ar i s i na, at h er Majesty's Theatre last evening with her presence. The B e l g i an and Netherlands Ministers transacted business yesterday, wt the Foreign-office. The Earl of Gosford had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. F ASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. S. Lord an d L a d y Suffield, in ARRIVA Bon L d-street, from the seat of t he r ., Duke a n d D uc h ess o f Ri c h mon d , i n S ussex ; t h e E ar l o f .c angham, in Bond -street, from his seat in Yorkshire. Mr. and Mrs. Green and family, at the Cavendish Hotel, Jerms. n . x street, from Brighton; Mrs. Saunders and family, 4t ditto, from Richmond ; Edward Lucas, Esq., M.P., at ditto; Maurice Sarasin, Esq., at ditto, from the Continent; Captain France, at ditto, from Liverpool ; Captain Bowls, at ditto, from Richmond. DEPARTURES. The Duke and Duchess of Leeds, from St. James's-square, for their seat in Scotland; the Duke of Rutland, from Bolton row, for his seat, Belvoir Castle, Rutlandshire ; Lord Burg kersh, from Harley-street, on a Continental tour; Lady Jane Hay, from Belgrave-square, for Haddingtonshire; the Earl and Countess of Brownlow, from Belton House, for their s eat in Lincolnshire ; Lady Harriet Gardner, from Grafton street, for the Continent; Count Goerlez, for Germany; Sir Robert and Lady Harland, for a tour up the Rhine; Lord Rokeby, from Upper Berkeley-street, for the moors in Perth shire; the Marchioness of Lansdowne and Lady Louisa Fitz- Maurice, from Lansdowne: House, Berkeley-square, for their seat, Bowood Park, Wilts ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Thelluson, fro m Eaton-square, for a tour on the Continent ; the Dowager Countess of Howth, for Cheltenham ; the Hon. Mrs. Norton, from Green -street, for Scotland; Lord and Lady Louth, for their seat, Louth Hall, near Drogheda; the Earl and Countess of Norbury, from Beigrave-square, for their seat, burrow Abbey, King's County, Ireland ; B. B. Williams, Esq., and Miss Williams, from Portland•place, for Italy; Sir Charles Scudamore, from Wimpole- street, for Buxton ; Mrs. William Woodhouse and family, from Holles-street, for Tox teth Park, near Liverpool. _ CHANGES. tr Zlie Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, at Kelso Castle, Yorkshires; i to Mrs. Lawrence, at her seat, Studely Park, AP"hire • the Earl of Dunraven, at Adare, from Melton "I.ow.bray Sir Thomas and Lady Cotton Shepherd, at their seat In Staffordshire , from Leamington Spa; the Archbishop se°f York, at his palace, Bishopthorpe, near York, from his York, Nuneham, Oxfordshire ; the Right Hon. Sir Harford •lones Brydges, at his seat in Radnorshire, from Cheltenham ; H. and Lady Clarina, at Blackrock, from Dublin ; Colonel ton S pa; Mrs. Blair, for their seat in Scotland, from Learning " Lord Kilmaine, at Dublin, from Bath. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA'4 NEWMARKET SECOND 0 CTOBER MEETING, 838. —FR Y. Match, 50 sovs. h. ft. 1 Last mile and l a half of T.M.lll.—Cap 'Lin Gardnor's Reuben, 9st., agst Mr. Shelley's Bay Hampton, 7st. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1840. WEDNESDAY. M atch, 500 sous., h. ft. A.F.—Lord Lichfield's Firefly, (sister t ,e;) P hosphorus) agst Mr. Th orn hill' s f. by L am pli g ht er , darn by usear, out of Camarine's darn, Bst. 71b. each. LEE RACES.—YE STERDA Y. The Borough Cup Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 sovs. added from the Fund, free for any horse, &c. The winner to be sold for ,_ 6O sovs., if d emanded, &c. Heats, twice round and a distance. 3arker's b. h. Reform, aged, 9st. 71b Owner 1 1 errard's Subaltern, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b 2 2 ' 3l r. Lock's b. f. by Camel, 3 yrs, 7st. llb Won easy. The Galloway Stakes, with 10 sovs. added, for ponies, 14 hands h i g h, 8, c., ;mats, twi ce roun d an d a di s t ance , were won i n th re e be by M r . L an d r i dge ' s b r. m. Mat i lda, 9st. 7 1b . ( Hi gg i ns ) , I;,t atie wr.intg Mr. Whi tt i ngton ' s B etsey ( w h o won the first heat), Mr. 's Haphazard, and three others. , -Ile grand en t er t a i n ment to be given by her Ma 'esti' at the new palace, on the 17th instant, in honour of her august kother's birthday, will be a sumptuous dejeuncr, and not a ball, as was at first rumoured in the higher circles. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Will remove from Cambridge House, immediately after the Pror o gation of Parliament, to Kew Palace. KS Excellency the Marquis deßrignole (Ambas sador Extraordinary from Sardinia) and Marchioness de Brignole, are expected in town to-day, atom a tour in the provinces. The Earl and Countess de Grey leave town in a few Hall, Borougbrige,Yorkshire. days for their seat, Newby h d r The Earl of Yarborough has left Cowes, Isle of for a cruise to Cadiz, in hie fine yacht the Kestrel. Lo r d Prudhoe is shortly expected in this country frol lt the continent, to be present at the meeting of the British Associa tion at Newcastle. The Bishop of Llandaff is, we are happy to state, quite recovered from the serious indisposition which that reverend prelate wasa vi labouringLady W un d i z n a , short time since. His Lordship is at present on at Sidmouth. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—This morning Lord Thomas Cecil, brother to the Marquis of Exeter, led to the Hymeneal altar Lady Sophia Lennox, youngest daughter of the Dowager Duchess nf Richmond, and sister of the present Duke. The Duke and Duchess Of Richmond returned from Goodwood to be present at the cert.. Men „ 3', which t oo k place in Trinity Church, R egent ' s P ark. A f ter les oleninisation of the marriage, Lord Thomas and his bride returned l o ti f ,the house of the Dowager Duchess, where a grand breakfast to upwards forty„,.. distinguished persons was given. the We are aut h or i se d to state t h at t h ere i s no trut h i n rePort of Lord Shelburne's marriage with Miss Elphinstone de Fla }Malt ~,,---Aferning Chronicle. ."READFuL OUTRAGE.—Yesterday morning the Zebbou d - Lood of Doberry's-court, Clerkenwell, was a scene of alarm confusion, in consequence of a report that a man named White, a ;Ivpuu-illlarorrterbeefienner, had murdered his wife. It appeared that White and his _ Were passing through White Lion-street, Islington, when they e d, and the former beat her about the head and body in a dread :4:er with a heavy bludgeon, and he would have murdered her had it ro n for the interference of Sergeant Collins, 24 N division, who her to her residence. On entering the house, White began the to belabour her in a cruel manner, and her cries of murder alarmed neighbourhood, and at length Collins and other officers entered the a ac e, and found the wife bleeding, and her head beaten horribly. White b od "ouris hed a poker, and swore that he would dash out the brains of any Y Who dared to interfere with him, or try to take him; but he was ir, e ,, nttl anY secured an d t a k en to the station-house, after a determined v-aistarlee. The wife was carried to a surgeon's for assistance, and she at Put to b e d i n a precarious state. Yesterday the prisoner was c h arge d Hatton garden, when the officers only attended to give evidence 48 1 ,: i nst him, his wife having expressed her determination not to prose e' The magistr a t es con victed him in the penalty of 51., or two months' imprisonment. An inquest was held yesterday in Saffron-hill on „ o ti* ,, b ody of Ja mes au infant f air mouths 01,1. The parents of the 2 - t f c hild are dr un k en, pro fli ga te character s, living in an attic in one " L. ' courts leading out of Saffron-hill. On Saturday night they both Vh nt lici ne very much intoxicatral, and going to bed overlaid the child, t C n was found dead i n the morning. The Coroner and Jury expressed ittr nost disgust arid indignation at the conduct of the man and I~,itiao, and reg re t te d they were not ab l e to return a ver di ct o f man . 7g h ter against th em. V er di 'i t—" Di e d of suffocation in being over. 41 by the parents in a state of intoxication." 0 11 Sunday night last, about twelve o'clock, as Mr. 2.lorg an, of No. 8, Denmark_street, Soho, was walking along e c h o, W estm i nster, towards home, he was stopped by two men, ec :'°, after treating him in a very rough manner, tore Millis pocket, la taifl ing a soverei g n an d a h a lf, w ith some s il ver, an d a snu ffbox. gi nY also knocked off .his hat, which they took possession of, and run g orr with the plund ?r, effected their escape. I C AAI ItIOTS.— Bills of indictment were found by ~,:t h- ratia Jury, on T ues d a y, a g a i ns t on ly 13 o f th e persons c h a rged al a ri ntiog on the occasion of the burial of Mr. Burke, in Tomo, last -- Y• The bills of indictme tit against the three Roman Catholic cler gymen- have been thrown m it. One of the reverend gentlemen who -- ` 4 Maj or B ur k e i ndicted for t h e assau l t h as g i ven up a ll f ur th er p ro . -41 1 7. i ngs.—Galway Patiwl. KENSINGTON PET TY SESSIONS.—On Monday a - „°rt'ilig the Magistrates who ually sit at these sessions refused to hear . 1, - "Y i eases, in consequence, as wt • have heard, of the Commissioners of t ° C i e; having, contrary to their wish, transferred an inspector, named t ac k, from that district to Bow-street district. It appears that, previous . ) t) the i ntroduction of the new po.ilice system, all charges occurring in the tileelisington district were heard .at Queen-square, and that the arrange. posilt w hich since that time has taken pl ace , o f h av ing the cases dis thee(' hy local Magistrares, - was perfectly volunary on the prt of • functionaries, who :have now, as we are told, t discontinued their c e , t _ es, for the reason ab ove stated. A public tric!eting is said to be in and : l nPlation to memoria lise the Commissioners to reinstate Mr. Black, request the Magistr ates to resume their sittings. GLANVIL LE FAMILY.—BY A LADY OF ‘ i c —Had the title page not stated the fact, we could at once have uterr from th e h; ed , a perusal of the work itself, that the author belonged to ;goer circles of society. No one that had not moved in tile fashion th_• enreres of life could have shown so Intimate an acquaintance with e"heever_anners and the co aversaition of the Aristocracy. The work is e.t,_.lay written, and ther e is much dramatic effect in many of the scenes, ay towards the den ouement. The latter volume, indeed, displays reds b• ldbetr:ble power. If tl his be the first effort of the author, as we have b elieve it is, s h e i s a writer of very great promise. —Observer. While th e f ree watermen and lightermen of the ih'''.‘a cTharnes are very p roperly restricted by the law from carrying more :_-4anvYeefireiretsaiinf tiy number ,e t passengers in their wh e r r i es, an d are li a ble to i h i cai !Ty more than th e num b er expressed i n t h e i r orm.o:d their boats the proprietorsi ti of some of the private ferries on the Thames , v a s hameful manner, work them without a Lic ence from the Wa.termn ' Company, and claim exemption from fin es. Thi s certainly ought to adopteer to altered by a Legi s lative enactment, and means o u g ht a l so to be prevent the over-crowded state of the Woolwich and Gri 'enwich steamers and those above bridge, particu larly on Sundays. lay, Monday e veiling a carman named Francis Bat fro, was run over b y his own cart whilef proceeding across the road Vauxhall to Butt ersea. One of the wheels passed over his right th igh and severely fractured the bone. GUILDHALL.--In addition to the cleaning and re . Itild ing which this mimic !tit hall generally undergoes some time previous !outa the 9th of Novernbe.r, orders have been issued this r.theotho gh renovation of the rich Saxon and Gothic stone work which fc h Work, the eastern end. ,Large portions of the elegant cornice i and eh r fret. na. which had become :much dilapidated from age, are in the course of re moval, and new materials are in preparation to supply their place. Three niches are also to be added, of which the centre one will be ap. I,ro p r iated , to a st a t ue of queen Victoria. The work i s rapidly approach n _gperoor n pletion, and wh en fi n i s h e d w ill h ave the effect of co ns id erabl ving the app earance of this venerable scene of civic pomp. y An inquest was t held lag night, in Hemming's-row, ortn theabody of an old wc man named Prosser, whose death originated fractured leg, frct in falling down stairs. Verdict—. Accidental PARLIAMENTARY DI VISION. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (IRELAND) BILL. MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS LAST NIGHT, ON THE QUALIFICATION CLAUSE. PRESENT—fI EARLS. Limerick Mansfield Munster Poulett Ripon Roden Rosslyn Shaftesbury Tan kery il le Verulam % scnuNTs. Canning Canterbury Exmouth Gage Hawarden Hood St. Vincent Strang ford BISHOPA, Ox ford St. David's BUM?. Wellington MARQUISSES. Abercorn Aylesbury Downshire Exeter Ormontle Salibbury LOaPS. Alvanley Ashburton Bayning Bexley Cal thorpe Carbery Colchester Colville De Lisle Dunsany Ellenborough Forrester Lyndhurst Montagu Rayleigh Ileay Redesdale Sandys Sondes Southampton Stuart de Rothsay Tenterden Wharncliffe EARLS. Abingdon Bannon Bathurst Brecknock Clancarty Clanwilliam Dc Grey Delawarr Devon Rigby Eldon Falmouth Hadding,ton Jersey DUKES. Montrose Northumberland PROXIES-80. E %ILLS. Moreton Mount Edgcumbe Onslow Plymouth Powis Sandwich Selkirk Somers Stamford St. Germain's Waldegrave `Warwick Westmoreland Winchilsea LORDS. Bagot Boston Carrington (Earl) Carteret Churchill Clinton Delamere De Saumarez De Tabley Douglas of Douglas Downes Feversh...in Forbes Gifford Glenlyon Grantley Harris Manners Maryborough Monson Rivers Rodney St. Helen's Wallace Walsingham Willouglihyde Broke Wodehouse Wynford lIQUISES. Bute Camden 1 lert ford Huntley \Vatertbrd West m eat h EA RLS. Airlie Balcarres Bradford Caledon Cardigan Donoughmore Dunmore Elgin Guilford Hardw eke Harrington Home Hopetown Howe Leven and Melville Lucan Macclesfield Malmesbury Mayo VISCOUNTS. Combennere Doneraile Ferrard Lorton Sidinouth Sidney Strathallan BISHOPS. Bangor Gloucester LORDS. Abinger Arden MINORITY Who divided in favou Clause it of the Amendment by the House of Com t of the Qualification limns. DUKES. Argyll Leeds Leinster Norfolk Richmond Sutherland Clanricarde Conyngham Headfort Lansdowne PRESENT-38. EARLS. 11Chester Uxbridge Wicklow VISCOUNTS. LORDS. Holland Howden Langdale Li!ford Mostyn Plunket Saye and Se le Seaford Sudety Straffbrd Faux BISHOPS. IFalkland Lismore Melbourne ILORDS. Barham Cottenhana Dacre { Dinorben 1 (Acnelg Hatherton EARLS. Albemarle Effingham Gosford Deny Hereford PAIR Bishop of Carlisle Aberdeen Beauchamp Beresford Braybrooke Brownlow Buccleuch: Carnarvon Charleville Clare Clonbrock Courtown Cowley Dynevor Eglintoun Fitzgerald (;allow ay liarewood Hereford Kenyon Kintore Liverpool Londonderry Lothian Melville Moray MountcashelC Orford Orkney Ravensworth Rolle Rutland Saltoun Sheffield Sinclair Skelmersdale ralbot Thomond Tweccidale Wilton Bishop of Durham Camperdown Sligo Bateman Denman Burlington Meath Petre Fingal] Poltirnore Montfort Devonshire Carlisle Ducie Belhaven Brougham and Vaux Bt eadalbane Stourton Crewe Errol Dalhousie Methuen Care w Roxburgh Shrewsbury Byron Bishop of Ripon Lichfield Portman Wrottesley Suffield Anglesea Segrave Lovat Besborough Hamilton Leitrim 'flatlet Gardner Charlemont THE ARISTOCRACY AND MADAME GRISI. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—As if aristocratic insolence and indecency were not already sufficiently remarkable, they have endeavoured to blazon it more than ever by their conduct to Madame Grisi. I am surprised, Sir, that the Liberal Press—for to the other portion it is needless to look—have taken no notice of the treatment the "singing woman" received on her benefit, on account of Castlereagh. It is a fact, Sir, and you will find so upon inquiry, that owing to the absence of the ARISTOCRACY, almost any box might have been had on the night of Grisi's benefit, while Castlereagh was to be seen in the ‘. omnibus" box, making himself as conspicuous as possible by insolence to Madame Grisi, and contempt of propriety. Surely, Sir, if this be the tone of morality among the higher classes, that a woman who happens to be virtuous, is therefore to be exposed to insult, we need scarcely wonder at the poli tical iniquity of the Upper House ; nor need they be surprised if the virtuous middle classes, disgusted at their iniquities, moral and political, feel uneasy until they have emancipated themselves from their irresponsible controul ? In the sincere hope that they may succeed in this, I remain, Sir, Your most humble servant and subscriber, London, Aug. 7, 1838. J. D. GEORGE THOMPSON, ESQ. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir, —With the deepest emotion, and the most heartfelt pleasure, have I read in your invaluable Journal of last week the account of the proceedings at Birmingham to commemo rate the extinction of Negro Slavery in the West Indies—l wish I could have said in the whole of the British Colonies. The eloquent speeches, the touching appeals, and the Chris expressed for the poor, helpless, and outcast n ti e a g n miat rosy,ha)di b n y them enough to make the hearts of freemen re joice that liberty , tru e, perfect liberty, has been at last, in one day, conferred upon 800,000 of our race. But the work is not accomplished yet—The Sun has yet to enlighten the minds and warm t he hearts of some of Briton's sons in the sacred cause of humanity. Go on, Sir, nor cease to agitate till the glad sound of freedom shall reverberate even to the most dis tant part of our globe. May I be permitted through you to call the attention of the friends of the negro to the claims of one of the 'most un daunted, persevering, and eloquent friends of freedom, whose life, health, and best energies have been put forth in defence of the claims of the poor bleeding and manacled slave—l need only mention the name of GEORGE THOMPSON to find an echo in ten thousand breasts. I have not the honour of his acquaintance, neither am I known in any way to him, but I do think he is justly entitled to some distinguished mark of respect—some lasting token of admiration—at the hands of all lovers of genuine Chris tian freedom. Who has not seen him apparently ex hausted ? labouring with a torrent of impassioned elo quence not to be overcome—in fact carrying all argu ment and all the finer feelings of our nature before him like a torrent, while advocating the cause of the negro in this country? And who car, forget his manly courage and perse verance in America, the boasted land of freedom ! but slave oppressing America. There, at the risk of his life, he stood to beard the lion in his own den. We owe him a tribute of gratitude for his exertions, and now that his exertions are not so much wanting, compensation for his toils. I am, Sir, your's respectfully, J. S. August 6, 1838. = - OMNIBUS FARES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn—As the public Press i 3 the means of checking imposi tion, with that view I solicit the favour of your inserting the following circumstance in your guardian paper, The Sun:— Yesterday I got into an omnibus (with the name of Cloud, No, 2,503, painted - on it), opposite the Green Park, Picca dilly, and was put down at Kensington, a distance of about If miles, when I tendered a shilling, and requested the change. To my surprise the conductor refused, adding, that was the fare, and immediately called out " all's right," and left me, no doubt thinking to himself how cleverly he had duped me out of sixpence. To avoid being so duped in future, I intend to provide myself with the proper change, or at least to get change before giving the larger amount, which is the advice I would give those who do not wish to be duped by some of these omnibus sharks. I am, yours, &C. Aug. 6, 1838. ANTI-IMPOSITION. P. S.—l do not apprehend the proprietor has or will benefit by the imposition, because, probably, it may be practised with out his knowledge or consent. The temperature in the United States is described by all the recent accounts from that country to have been remarkably high during the first twenty days of the last month. Here, and in France and Germany, it has been complained of as very cold. A writer in the Monthly ChiJnicle records that he was sitting with his feet on the fender, before a blazing fire, on the 27th of July ; and the temperature here, up to this time, has cantinued low. The average of late has probably been below the point at which corn and wall-fruits ripen. The extra heat in one place leads us to infer that the want of it in another is likely to continue, and that the season will not be extra ordinarily propitious here. Such seasons have at least this good effect — they arrest attention to the phenomena, and te nd to make us better ac. quainted with meteorology. They may be considered as experiments instituted for the general instruction. SEWERS IN FETTER-LANE.—A correspondent wishes us to draw the attention of the Commissioners of Sewers to the unconnected state of the sewers in Fetter-lane. No sewer has been finished between Neville-court and Norwich-court, and as some repairs are now going on connected with the sewers in one or two parts of the lane, he thinks the opportunity ought to be taken to construct one. PHENOMENA.—In consequence, it is supposed, of 012 abundant showers, during the last four months, the scaffold-poles planted in front of the new banking-house of the Lincoln and Lindsey company, in this city, as well as others in front of Messrs. Colema's have begun to sprout out buds.—Lincoln Chronicle. S-40. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1838. COBBETT CL ÜB. The following is the petition presented by Mr. Platen from the Cob_ bett Club to the House of Commons on Monday evening : To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled. The petition of the members of the Cobbett Club, unanimously agreed to at a meeting of that body in the City of London, hum. bly sheweth, 1. That for a long series of years the public afliiirs of this nation have been in the hands of a set of nice, in the choosing of whom the great body of the people, had no voice; a set of men, some of whom were mere political adventurers; others of whom were perfectly ignorant of political matters, and of what was necessary to the good go% ernment of the people; and the great majority of them were of moral character and of mental acquirements, precisely the contrary of those which would have been selected fur the performance of the duties of legislation, had the people possessed the power of choosing their own representatives; the consequences of which are, that this nation, notwithstanding the intelligence, the matchless ingenuity,, and the indomitable industry of the people, is becoming so poor and distressed at home, and so feeble and despicable in the scale of nations, as to cause the most p a i n f ul fore. bodings in the minds of your petitioners, that, unless there be a Radical Reform of all the numerous abuses in the representation of the people they will, bye-and-bye, find themselves belonging to the weakest and most despised country in the world. 2. Your petitioners complain that the tendency of many of the laws which have been passed by your Honourable House for many years past, has been to augment the power of the rich and to depress the in dustrious part of the people. That the mode of laying on the taxes-has been such as to place the whole weight on the shoulders of those the least able to bear it, and to let the powerful support none of the burden; to benefit the wealthy and the idle at the expense of the labouring por tion of the people. We think it unnecessary in this place to specify particular cases in support of these propositions, because it is of the whole system which is pursued in the carrying on of the public affairs of which we complain ; that system, by the means of which taxes are levied on us, and then divided amongst the friends and dependents of thOse who levy them; and also for the purpose of supporting an unconstitu- tional force, namely, a STANDING ARMY TN TIME OF PEACE; an army which has three Generals to every regiment; and for the support of a Navy, which has two Admirals to every ship of Ike line ; thus, taking both services, appointing one commissioned officer to every five men ; that is to say, having more commissioned officers than the whole army formerly amounted to in time of peace, and this too, when we have been at peace for nearly a quarter of a' century. And we further complain that both these services arc officered by men who have been bred up almost at the sole cost of the working people ; whilst these same working people, when they belong to either of these services, are not permitted, no matter what may be their talent, to attain the honour of holding a commission, a circumstance that excites a sus picion in the minds of your petitioners that these two services are kept up on this evtravagant footing, for no other purpose than that of providing places where the younger branches of the titled and untitled Aristocracy may be kept in splendour and idleness at the public charge. We complain, too, of the manner in which the whole of our Foreign and Colonial affairs are conducted, and of every part of the regulation of our domestic concerns; all of which are so managed as to convince every man that the main object of the English Government is to raise as much as possible in taxes from the working people, to be given to the idle, which will, in all probability, continue to be the case, until the nation, tired of being so unmercifully plundered, shall, by means of a violent convusion, jerk aside the whole party, and destroy the very form of the Government, unless the proper means be speedily adopted for remedying it in a quiet and equitable manner; and the only thing which presents itself to the minds of your petitioners, as a remedy for these evils is, for the whole people to be fully and fairly represented in Parliament. Such being our belief, we pray fora Reform of the fol lowing nature : a First—That the whole of the Representatives of the people in Par. liament shall be chosen every year. Second--That no man who has attained the age of 18 shall be excluded from voting fur Members of Parliament, whether he be pauper, sol dier, sailor, or anything else, if he be of sane mind, and be not branded by sentence of a Court of Justice for some indelible crime, which renders him incapable of giving evidence in a Court of Justice in civil matters. Third—That the votes for Members of Parliament be taken by Ballot. Fourth—That there be no pecuniary qualification necessary for Mem. bers of Parliament; and that the Members shall be paid for their services. 4. With regard to the first of these things, namely, Annual Parlia. ments, your petitioners beg to remind your Honourable House, that there never were any other than Annual Parliaments in this country for many ages, during which the great mass of the people enjoyed more real happiness, and were less prone to crime, than at any other period of our history; and that it was unknown to our laws for Parliaments to be of more than three years duration until the Whigs (wham God has permitted so long to infest this country) passed the Septennial Act—the same faction who invented the Funding system, the Excise, the new Poor Law, and scores of other acts of innovation on the ancient rights of the nation, all tending to impoverish and degrade the people. A great reason in your petitioners' estimation why Parliaments should not be permitted to exist longer than one year, is the certainty that the re presentatives of the people, being sent back as frequently as possible to render to the people an account of their conduct in Parliament, they will be more disposed to cultivate the good opinion of their constituents, and will not have the opportunity nor the desire )af making a seat in your Hon. House the mere means of forwarding their own private interests, instances of which we witness every day, and hundreds of which we could name, were we not restrained by that salutary dread of bringing your Hon. House into contempt, which, we trust, will always influence us whenever we may presume to lay our humble supplications at your feet. Your petitioners beseech your Hon. House to consider also how manifestly unjust it is that Parliaments should continue longer than one year, inasmuch as a vast number of persons will have arrived every year at the proper age for giving a vote Ibr Members of Parliament, who wil otherwise be unjustly deprived of the exercise of that right, and thus render it impossible for them to have any eon Hence in the wisdom and integrity of Parliament, a thing so necessary to the happiness and well being of the people, These reasons alone, your petitioners believe suffi. cient to show that Parliaments ought to be elected annually " or oftener if needs be." 5. In petitioning for the extension of the right of voting for Members of Parliament to every man who has arrived at the age of eighteen, your petitioners are actuated by this reason :—That, as the law has fixed that as the age when a man chall become liable to be called upon to bear arms in the defence of his country, it is unjust to refuse him the right of voting for persons whose acts may cause him to be compelled to come forth and risk life and limb in the defence of the institutions of a country in which he has scarcely more privileges than if he were an alien. And your petitioners further believe that it is not more unrea. sonable to entrust such persons with the right of exercising the elective franchise, than it is to place the executive POWER OF THE NATION in THE HANDS OF • PERSON of that age, nor more dangerous than it is to en trust them with the possession of muskets and other deadly weapons. G. Your petitioners are aware that it has long been the standing ar. gument with the tyrants who oppose the freedom of the people, that the poor man is " virtually" represented; but they are, at the same time, firmly convinced, that, Ls a pictorial representation of a dinner would not satisfy the appetite of even ono of those doomed unfortu nates who are being taught to live upon such minute infinitesimal P or. Cons of bad food, and who inhabit the New Poor-law Bastiles which have been so kindly provided for them by their " virtual represent a ti ves " in Parliament, so will such representation not much longer be e n d ured by the people of this nation, seeing, that the industrious part of th em are, almost to man, fully alive to the monstrous mischiefs which h ave re: suited to them from this fraudulent and insolent , usurpation, which, without their own consent, appropriates the fruits of their labour, and places them in that state in which it might be truly said of them that their very bodies are not their own. They are aware (as Blackstone expresses it) that upon the " true theory and genuine principles of li. berty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote in electing those delegates to whose charge is committed the disposal of his property, his liberty, and his life." They are also aware that, as the same writer says, "the lawfulness of punishing criminals is founded upon this principle—that the law by which They suffer was made by their own consent." And further, they are told, not only by the Constitution of England, but by reason, by justice, by plain common sense, that, "LAWS TO BIND ALL MUST BE ASSENTED TO BY •LL." The same unerring guides also tell them that the right to vote for those who make the laws is the great characteristic distinction between freemen and slaves. Whilst your petitioners are occupying the precious time of your Ho nourable House on this subject, they would beseech you to permit them to remind you that the Act, passed in the second year of the reign of William IV., and which isfalsely and ridiculously called the "Reform , ' Act, instead of having extended the elective franchise, as prayed for, has absolutely narrowed it, and has retained it wholly in the hands of the more wealthy part of the people! And this is the "great boon," given to us in the place of that Reform for which we had, for so many years, been praying, and for endeavouring to obtain which, so many of the people have had to endure scorn, mocking, ignominy, stripes and impri_ sonment, banishment and transportation from their native land, whilst the hangman's noose, and the axe, and the ripping-knife have been the reward of others! We prayed for such a Reform as would give to every man a vote; we were at length told by the Government that they were ready, not to give us all that we prayed for, but to give us a substan. tial Reform; and, after thus lulling our suspicions, and gaining our con. fidence, they, with Whig-like perfidy, pass a measure that is so clogged with conditions, that, in its operation, the number of electors is found to be smaller than it was before this " BOON" was granted ! 7. As regards the composition the "Reformed" Commons' House, your petitioners beg to be permitted to direct your attention to the fol lowing facts :—Namely, that a majority of the Members of your Ho nourable I-louse are, at this time, returned by 151,492 electors, whilst, in the United Kingdom, the number of mates, above 18 years of age, is about 7,000,000, and the entire population is 24,000,000, thus we find that less than 1.46 th of those who ought to possess the elective fran chise, or 1-160th of the entire population, have the power of passing laws its the House of Commons to bind the whole people! And to show to your Honourable House how the property-qualified constituency ex ercise the right of voting, we tender to your notice the fact, that, among the Members chosen by the 1.160 th part of the population, we and no fewer than 167 officers of the army and navy, which is more than I.4th of the whole House ; and, in addition to these, there are 51 placensen, and not fewer than 100 sons, brothers, and other near relations of Peers. Here, then, are 318 Members of your Honcurable House , of whom _ more than one-half are dependent on the Government, and the wholeo them have an interest in direct opposition to the interest of the indus trious t ,e in a class, and, therefore, arc not likely to be faithful guardians of b i n. persons and property of that class. An d your petitioners, I mility, affirm, that, out of the whole 658 who com p ose your Honour ableot fi ve) House, there are not more than two or three (certainly n Members in whose capability (they will not say in te g rit y ) for manag lug the affairs of this country they have the smallest confidence. s for 8. With regard to the manner of taking the vote s at elec .hn tin k n that Members of your Honourable House, your petitioners du rotec. when the suffrage shall be universal, the voters should have the .ii their p tion of the Ballot, inasmuch as they will then hold the vote iii te own right, and not as a trust ; for, whilst it is a trust, those w h o have to be it slot, ought to know how it is exercised ; but, whilst it ceases to man a trust, then no man will have any right to know how a nother votes, and cannot wish to know but from some unworthy mo tive. 9. Concerning the qualification of Members, your petitioners think, e that it should not consist in the possession of wealth, whic h c left toannot confer talent or honesty ; but that the voters themselves should b choose their representatives for any of those qualities or endowments that . they, the electors, may wish t o h a v e engage d in their service, believing, as every sensible man must, th a t th e y w ill neve r choose glen whose conduct would be likely to produce injury to those whom they represent, and who ought to be the so l e j u d ges o f t h e qua lifi ca ti o n of those w hom they may desire to engage in their service; at any rate, it is not Om"'e for them to choose men who would do acts worse than those perpetrates by the men who passed the new Treason-laws, the new Trespass-laws, the new Game-laws, the Six Acts, the Draco.like code of laws for fet tering the press. They will never send men to Parliament as their representatives possessing less talent and moral worth than those men pos sessed who once agreed to a resolution declaring, at the time of the great depreciation of paper money, that a pound.note and a shilling were equal in value to a golden guinea, whilst the guinea was being c onstantly sold for 28s. in paper ; an d w h o afterwards agreed to another resolution declaring that, at that former period, a pound-note and a shilling were not equal to a golden guinea! They will never send men into your Honourable House who will be found to be so stupid, or unprincipled, or both, as those men who passed a law to prevent the Bank of England from paying its creditors, and who afterwards came to a unanimous vote, which had, as they innocently thought and triumphantly declared, "set the question of the currency at rest for ever," by diminishing the amount of the circulating medium of the country w ithout making an "equitable adjustment" of a ll contr acts—that is to say, without di. minishing the amount of debts, taxes, and pecuniary burdens of all kinds in the same proportion—thus compelling the people to pay the same amount of debts, taxes, and burdens, with a dimi• nished amount of money! They will not send men to Psrlia- ment worse than those who, after it was proved to them by the late Member for Oldham, that the stamp duties were so partial and unjust as to cause a poor man to pay, in some cases, forty per centum more than a rich man, and in other cases a thousand times more than a rich man, and who, after having promised to bring in a Bill to remedy the evil, have never done anything to remove this crying, this flagrant abuse! It is not to be believed that they would send men to Parlia ment, to represent them, who would do worse than those who so manage the Crown estates (which ought to produce to the national revenue some five or six millions of pounds sterlieg a year), that they only yield to the Treasury about one-thirtieth part of that sum, whilst they divide the rest amongA theinselveq ! They will not—they cannet (for on the face of this earth they cannot find them), send men to your Honourable House worse than those who p asse d a Pcor Law Amcndm(nt Act for the declared purpose of preventing the estates of the rich from being swallowed up by the pools rates, while 113 retired Privy Councillors receive as much annually, in pensions, as the amount of the pours' rates of eighteen counties—while the Peers and their families have, in places and pensions, more than the amount of the poors , rates of thirty.eight, out of the fifty-two, counties of England and Wates, besides what they possess of the plunder of the Church and of tl,e poor, of which one family receive more annually than the amount of the poor,' ra tes of twenty counties; and many others have vast portions of the same and of other kinds of property belonging to the public. Your petitioners hope that, when you reflect on these things, your Honourable House will not allow your hearts to be disquieted within you, nor your spirits to be any longer so sorely depressed by the fear that Universal suffhige will at all deteriorate the respectability of Parliament ; or that it can, by any , possibility, cause men to be sent to make laws, possessing less talent and integrity than were possessed by those men whose acts have made it necessary for your petitioners to pray for such an extension of the elective franchise, as will cause such men to be sent to your Hon. House as will be what you call yourselves—Representatives of the people --such as will renovate the institutions of the country and make them to be once more the envy of surrounding nations and the admiration of the world. 10. Your petitioners arc further of opinion that if the Members of Par liament be paid by their constituents for their services, they will not be under the temptation to do that which has destroyed so many Members of former Parliaments, and produced so much demoralization and misery among the people; that is, to remunerate themselves by selling their constituents ; and, as payment of Members was provided for by a law, passed in the reign of Edward 111., which law as your petitioners believe, is still unrepealed, though fallen into disuctude, they, therefore, hope to see that wise and just law again in force. 1 I. Having, thus briefly, stated the nature of the reform which we deem necessary to preserve from destruction the freedom and happiness of this country, and having given a few of the reasons that present them selves to our minds in support of our statement, We, therefore, pray your Honourable House that you will be pleased to take into your immediate consideration the state of the representa. tion of this country, with a view to the causing such a reform as will give to the people— _ _ First. Annual Parliaments. Second. Universal Suffrage. Third. Vote by Ballot. Fourth. Repeal of Qualification for Members. Fifth. That Members be paid for their services. 12. With nothing short of the possession of these constitutional rights will your petitioners be ever satisfied; and they are confident that your Honourable House will not object to saw.tion them, especially when you recollect that several of them are in accordance with the an cient p ractice spi of of our re Constitution.co u nt? y , and A all of them are strictly conformable t o then your petitioners will ever pray. (Signed on behalf of the Meeting by) JAMES WILKINSON, Chairman. July 4, 1838. THE ROAD IN FORMER TIMES. ( Abridged from the Doncaster Gazette.) The reign of Elizabeth is generally cited as the period when coaches were introduced into England, and under that term carriages of every kind have been considered as included ; but long anterior to that period, vehicles with wheels, under the denomination of chares, cars, chariots, caroches, and whirlicotes, were used in England. Another species of con veyance, which was long in use, especially amongst females of rank, and on state occasions by persons of distinction, was the horse litter, of which mention is made at very early pe riods of our history. Ladies fair and gentle, Prelates Right Reverend, and Abbots jovial, all travelled in goodly array, with their h ouse h o ld s and " chappell and wardrobe stuffes," on ambling palfreys, " varey nobly drest," and well trapped mules ; grave Judges of Assize, and the Learned Members of the Bar, attended by their associates and clerks, literally " rode" the circuit, oftentimes, perchance, to their own discomfiture and sore hindrance. In 1526, Henry Clifford, on his creation as Earl of Cumberland rode from Skipton to London, with thirty-three servants, at an ex pense of 71. 15s. Id.; and Henry, the fifth Earl of North umberland, when on a journey, appears, to have been ac companied by no less than seventeen carriages, or long w aggons, filled with every needful article of household fur niture, and attended by thirty-six horsemen. The communication • between the metropolis and other parts of the kingdom, by means of public stage coaches, was established as early as the middle of the seventeenth century. On the 2d May, 1659, Sir Wm. Dugdale in forms us, in his Diary, that he " set forwards towards London by Coventre coach ;" and in 1663, Mr. Edward Parker, writing to his father, at Brosholme, in Lancashire, relates the misery which he had endured in the course of a coach journey to London. "My journey," says he, " was noe ways pleasant, being forced to ride in the boote all the waye; ye company yt came up with mee were persons of great quality, as knignts and ladycs. My journey's expence was 30s. This traval bath soe indis dosed men yt I am resolved never to ride up againe in ye coatch. I am extrearsely hott and feverish. What this may tend to I know not. I have not as yet advised with any doctor." The boot of the coach which this gentleman states he was forced to occupy, with so much personal in convenience, appears to have been an uncovered projection at the sides of the vehicle, which was used for the accommoda- tion of the persons of passengers, as well as of their luggage ; and the individuals who occupied them sat with their backs to the carriage and their faces to the road-side. The present construction of the state coach of the Lord Mayor of London, hi which the City officers are so placed as to look out front wise at the doors, originated when these side boots were dis used. St ow e, in his Annals, speaks of long waggons for passengers and commodities being used about the year 1564; they were a f terwar ds called caravans , a nd usuall y carried twent y or five travelled by them, taking with them their servants, passengers. People of quality and gentry fre quently Sir W. Dugdale, writing in his Diary, 1660, plate, Src. atidtenty says that his daughter " went towards London by wag gon ~ L e ss than a century ago, there might be seen, day uot : I I e d them g : metropolis, r n ao g upsoei i w s a , Y : day, plodding their weary way upon a narrow cause wayost of our principal roads, strings of pack-horses from thirty to forty in a row, bearing in huge pile, after' onm generally furnished with bells, partly by upon theliorthbiearckasnd the t bu L l e k e y ds me m rc e h o a e n fa d e i t z u e rer o . f T th h e e le N a V d e e s r t Riding c and partly to give warning to travellers, coming in the opposite direction, who usually convenient spot whereon to halt until the train, o swwno. f ihnutyohg theselo, might tfsi sggoohar ornament, ! bin s ee % v n a t s a plunge into the soft unmade road on each side projecting packages, had passed by, in preference to out of which they sometimes experienced considerable difficulty in being extricated. The partial intro duction of the main lines of commercial intercourse with duction of toll-gates, aendthteheinceoannsseoqfuesnutpiemrsperdoivnea draw a curious comparison between the demand the Corporation, in whose hands . horses at Doncaster in former days and the present for post appears to have been vested, made an order at period. the power of granting licenses for letting animals of this Iy t n s t o b f e bu y r e t a h r ei l i. 6B 1 , description one o f their meetings, that six post-horses should be kept these me v t e i b e asts e rn a a s in the town during the ensuing year, and that the two men who should kee p them should be allowed the " eadish" of the great Ho l mes , one close at the Carr-side, an d one c l ose at the Lodge and they further directed that no ot h er person should with any post-horses, unless th e two men so ap pointedbad not horses to spare, or should c h ance to b e abrod o f posting," upon pain of certai n pena l ties to be im posed upon traus g ressors by the Council. These not i c es of former simplicity may be amusing to us no w ; but the da y s seem fast a pp roachin g wh en our own rapid and highly -finished st y le of travelling must sink into insignifi cance before the widely-spreading influen ce o f t h at all-power ful instrume nt the steam en g ine. And there wil l be those who, in the co urse of a centur y hence, will p eru se the accounts of our modern performances on the road, with our " fast" an d . safety" carriages of e ver y descri p tion, and the equestrian feats of modern gentry on thoroughbred horses, with a smile upon their countenances, at the high notions which their an cestors entertained of the fancied state of perfection to which the flattered themselves they had attained. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—BetWeen two and three o'clock on Sunday morning the inhabitants of Cheshunt were placed in a state of considerable alarm in consequence of a report that the farm, the property of Mr. Williams, situated a short distance from the high road, was on fire. They who were awakened from their sleep im. mediately arose from their beds to render what assistance they could. The hemisphere was illuminated for some miles, though the centre of the conflagration appeared to be in the vicinity of Wormsley, which is at a distance of a mile and a quarter from Cheshunt. They directed their course thither, when the object on fire was found to be a waggon. It was entirely enveloped in flames, which ascended to a great height. The horses were detached, but owing to a report that there was a quan tity of gunpowder in the conveyance, those who had collected at the spot did not assist in removing any of the property. The whole was reduced to ashes in little more than an hour. From the account com municated to our informant, it appeared that the waggon was the property of Messrs. Deacon and Co., the extensive carriers, Fore-street, Cripplegatc, and it was under the care of two men of the names of Lea and North, the driver and guard. They started ou Saturday night, and had passed through Cheshunt without having observed any appearance of fire; when about to enter Wormsley, th ey o b served flames issuing f ro m several parts of the wag. gon. The first thought of th e m en was to take care of their hor ses (live in number), an d t h ey were promptly d i sengag ed. They then tried to remove some of th e goods, i n do i ng w hich their hands were severely burnt ; but th e progress of the f i re was so rapid, that they soon perceived their efforts wer e i ne ff ectua l . There was no water to be got. There was a pump, but the handle of it was chained and locked. Some w aggons passed them, but the waggoners were afraid to afford assistance from the report of gunpowder being in the waggon. The men attri bute the fire to the breaking of a carboy (a basket in which is a large bottle that contains turpentine), which, flowing among other things of a combustible nature, ignited. During the fire an explosion was heard. The w a g gon had not a full load ; but the property destroyed is estimated to be worth near 3,0001. It consisted of tea, a piano forte, with case, weighing 6 cwt., household furniture of various de. scriptions, linen, hams, (several of which were y esterda y brought to IMessrs. Deacon, completely roaste I), a large q uantit y of percussion caps, wine, spirits, &c. The whole was uninsured. • - Great improvements are now making by a company of enterprising individuals in the western parts of Gravesend, where new streets, crescents, and terrace; have been erected and are in the course of erection. A woman, named King, the wife of an itinerant fish-vender, Was yesterday committed to Newgate for trial from Queen_ square, on the capital charge of having stabbed in the bark, with an oyster-knife, a rival oyster.monger, named Allen, who was quarrelling with het husband. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUG. 7. Number Dividend - Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. ?aid. Share 1,706 7 pet cent. Ashton and 01dham...........e 97/. 185.8 h. 135 1,082 41. Ashby-de-le-Zoucli Average 11:-". sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke loll4sh. 5 1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150,. se. 101 smo I -IGO). 9/ 6s. Birmingham, 1-16th share ... SI/. & 71/. 22.) O. 1100 DO to rid I,i vrnn , rd .7eine.t...1.)/ 6h. 100 pd 241 6(10 3e Bridgewater :nisi 1 anntoo ....100/..-h 'ill pd 64 40) 47, Chelim:x and Black water leee sh. 10 - 7 00 4S/ (':irs!.t•s. 4.545 2,0601 44. Os. Mid if Y~ 600 14, . I)crhy 1001 .sh. 133 20,000 4 per cent.- Oanuoe and Mayne 411.135. 4d.1,4 00 3 ,2751 11. Ellesmere and Ch es ter...... Av erage 133/. rh. 77 231 46!. Erewash MI. sn. 700 1,297 284 Forth and Clyde 1 verage 4401 . 104 . ib. 570 11,600 12/. Grand Junction 100!. sh. 202 2,8491 14 Grand Union 1004 oh 25 1,500 Grand Surrey 0,0004 41. per cent. 1)ltto (optional) Loan 103/. f 3 3'3911 Grand aVestern Hu. sh. elite. 600 134 12s. ed. (112anerganshire, Average cost 1724 13s. 4.L 13e 7411 10/. Grantham l5O/. sh. 20: 7 6,238 2!. Os. Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. 6(1. sh. 3 - 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 1( 5.'328 11. ss. Rennet r.nd Avon, Average 39/. 18s. 10/1. sh. 2: 2,897# 241. Leeds and Liverpool 100!. sh. 674 5151 13!. Leicester llO4 sh. 22 1,897 6/. Os. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 53/.los. 9 2.400 10/. Monmouthshire 100/.sh. 20 150 101. Melton Mowbray 1001. eh. 20 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 56 3,000 IL 10s. Macclesfield 100/.Bh. all pd. .5 247 17/, Neath 1004 sh. 35 2,400 51. Peak Forest Awe oge about 73/. sh. 11 1,418 121. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 165.8 d. sit 1 5,669 6/. per cent. Rochdale Average &5!. sh. 7 500 81. Shropshire /251. sh. I 800 91. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 1 3,6001. 41 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12/. 10s. sh. 700 401. Stafford and Worcester 14,01. sh. '', 500 9/. Shrewsbury 1251. sh. l 300 9/. stourbridge 3,647 2/. Os. Stratfordson. Avon ...Average 79/. 9s. od. sh. 333 15/. Swansea 1001. sh. 3,762 11. 155. Severn and Wye and Railway...Av 35/. sh. 2,60010 h. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share 100/. sh. 8.149 1 1 ( . 1 ,1 161. - Warwick and Birmingham 1004 sh. 1,04/04sh. 960 15/. Warwick and Napton lOO4 sh. 6,000 4/. Os. Worcester and Birmingham...Av.7B4Bl. sh. 5,000 255. Wilts an../ Berks .. Average 67/. 104.8 d. sh. SOO 31, Vs yrley and Essington 1251. sh 126 • 905 It. Wey and Arun 1104 sh. DOCKS. I: 6 0611 8 :h' .1 3p. c Commercial ‘ 'OO4 sh. East and West India ....Stock 3,238,31014 bss. p.ct. London Stock Ditto Bonds 2,5209 2/. 19s. Bristol 65,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1,352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine stock 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 1,500 , .... Deptford Pier . 0 01. sh. 20/. pd BRIDGES. 1,600 les. Hammersmith 50/. sh. 7,231 Southwark, Old 1,700 U. 153. Ditto, New. of 71 r. - cent. 5O/.811. 1 5,000 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8!. 6Ol. pd 11 5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 17 60,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds llB 5,848 17s ASSURANCE COMPA ag N lES.uxhall Avere 70/. 10s. 3d. sh. 23 2,000 3110 s Albion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 10 50,000 S - 5 per cent.! A lli ance ,British & Foreign 100/. sh. 10#4 pd 144 L and Is. 60,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 51. pd 6/ 24,000 41. per sh. Atlas 501. sh. 51. pd 141 1,200 ph. 5/. Birmingham Fire 2501. sh. 554 pd 1071 20,000 41. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40 12.000 61. per cent. British Commercial 50/. sh. 5/. pd 5; 5,000 54 per cent. Clerical, Mbdi.:al,&c. Life, 14)01.5h. 2110 s pd 4 s 4,000 21 lOs County 100/ sh. 10!. pd 401 20,000 ss. Eagle 50/ sh. Si. pd 51 perandcent.Economicldle 30! 2,271 225. percent. European Lit! °Ol. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 21. d p 14 1,000,0001. W. per ct. Globe Stock 1431 20,000 fd• Guardian lOO/. sh. 274,/ pd 341 40,000 6s. (id. Hope 5O/. sh. Si. pd 51 2,400 Si. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5004 sh. 50/. pd 1278 7,500 9s. Imperial Lite 1004 sh. 10/. pd 1); 13,458 4/. per cent. Indemnity Marine 1004 sh. 8/. psi 28 2,020 3! lOs Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd 82 ee Ditto Life... 79 10,900 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 251 5,000 10s. London, Fire 25/. sh. 121. 10s. pd 16 3,900 10s. London, Ship 251. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 16 1,000,000/. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. sh. 30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Life 50/. sh. 21. pd 218 s Od 50,000 41. per cent. Protector Fite 2Ol. sh. 24 pd 17s Od 2,500 1/. Provident Lice lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 20 100,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. 14 pd 7 649,220/ 54 per cent. Royal Exchange Stock... 2251 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sh. 5!. pd 54 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 51. pd 71 JOINT STUCK BANKS 25,000 8 percent. Agric. andC4/mm. of Ireland 251. sh. 101. pd 5,000 Australasia 4O/. sh. 40/. pd 6` 10,./00 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 5l l. sh. 10/. psi 7 1.0,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank .... ...... .. 50/. sh. 5/. pd 31,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster ...10 01 sh. 20/. pd 60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 504 sh. 10/. pd .3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 1001. sh. 20/. pd 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10!. pd 100,000 7/ per cent Manchester and Liverpool} 5 0/ .8 1 ) , 154 pd District 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/. pd 20,000 Provincial Bank oflreland 1004 sh. 254 pd 0,: 00 National Bank of Ireland - 501 sh. 1744 pti 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. IOW sit .1354 pd 10,000 Gloucestershire 5O/. sh. 10/. pd 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 51. pd GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 11 Os Od Bath 2Ol. sh. 18!. psi 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 5,000 1 . 5/ an d i lel i c s e . n6t6.3 Ditto Provincial 201. sh. 19 pd 928 51104 Birmingham 504 all. 4,250 '2l Os Bristol 201. sh. 1,500 3/ 10s Brighton 201. oh. 750 31 100 Ditto, New 201. sh. 181. pd 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 204 sh. all pd 4,000 51, Continental Consolidated 1,000 10/. City of London .......... ...... .1004 sh. all pd 1,000 61. Ditto, New lOO4 sh. 601. pd 4,000 44 10s. Equitable 5O/. pd 10,000 24 per cont. Imperial . 800 Si. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251 sh. 201. pd 2,350 61. per cent. Independent 3O/. sh. all pd 9,000 31. per cent. Phoenix .. 5Ol. sh. 39/. pd 1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff 100!. sh. 804 pd 4,000 South Metropolitan 5O/. sh. 19/. pd 8,200 5/. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 46/. pd 240 51. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 400 5!. per cent Wakefield 251. sh. 2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 5 (l. sh. 10/. pd KO Yarmouth 20/. sh. 161. pd WATER WORKS. 4,800 9s. Birmingham 251. sh. 25/. pd 4,434 61, East London lOOl. sh. 5,500 21 10s Grand Junction ....Average 411. 13s. 4d. sh. 2,000 24 Kent I 100/. sh. 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sb. 1,500 2110 s New River London Bridge WaterAnnuitics 6,486 1! 15s Manchester and Salford ..,100/. sh. 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 8,294 41, West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. 9d. sh. 1,360 1114 s YorIRONk Build ßA ing ILWAYSCo. Lessee Prop 100!. sh. 6,300 Birmingham and Derby 4 04 pd 9,500 15,000 Bristol and Exeter 100/. sh. 15 pd 660 Calcutta and Saugur 50/. eh. 2/, pd 7,500 Cheltenham and G.Western 1001. 811.11214 3,000 Clarence 12,000 8,000 ......... Dublin and Kilkenny 1001. sh. 24 pd 60,000 Easter n Counties 251. sh. 714 pd Grand Junction 1001. sh. 95/. pi Great North of England .13/. pd 5,000 2,000 8,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh. 15/. pit 10,008 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sli. Si. pd 2,100 34 per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 1,500 145.5. Leicester and Swannington -.504 sh. all pd 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lo(46h. 100/. pd 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 36,000 ....... London and Brighton 5O/. sh. 11/. pd 12,000 . London and Blackwall 50/. sh. 31. pd 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2Ol. sh. 204 pd 25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares 5/. pd 20,000 Ditto ditto New l5/. pd 14,000 6,000 Ditto New Scrip 12,000 13,000 10,000 North Midland 1001. sh. 45/. pd Northern and Eastern 1001. sh. 81. pd 2,600 Preston and Wyre 504 sh. 301. pd 98,000 ...... .. South Eastern and Dover 71. pd 1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington IOU!. sh. 9,000 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 501. sh. 2/. pd 6,000 York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 121. pd MINES. 8,0110 Albion Copper 5/. sh. 34/. pet 4,000 I/. Ss. Alten 151. sh. 121. lOs pd 111,000 ... .... . Anglo Mexican, 153. 5/. pir 100/. sh. all nd Ditto Subscription ' l 5l. pa 2,000 1 0 1. Bolanos , 1501. sh all pd 10,000 IL 10s Brazilian Imp. iss. 5!. pm 35/. sh. 'V/. pd 6,01'0 Macatihas is Cocaes United O5/. sh. 2.1. pd 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Itey 20/. sh. 14/40 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company. '2Ol. sll. 204 pd 10,000 .......... Ditto Scrip 11)1. sh. 104 pd 20,000 British Iron 501. sh. 50/ pd 6,000 British Copper 5l. sh. 444 pd Cate Branca 91. p Candonga 7-1. pd 10,0 500 00 11 Copiapo 2Ol sh 12i/ pd 8, ..3/. Eng lish Columbian, iss. 51. pm. 2 850 . 121 Ks. pd 20 ' G ene ral Mining Association...2o/. sh. 16/. ix! ,000 ......... Mexican Company 100/. sh. 55i1. pd 6,155 Polberou Consols 10/. sh. 8/. pd I 000 ......... ,',,,,,, .. Real del Monte, Unregistered '''''''" ....... Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd 30,000 United Mexican, in. 2 pm..... 401. sh. all pd ......... Ditty. Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd West Cork 50/ . sh. 50/. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 1,500 London University 1001. ish. all pd 700 . Russell 25gs. sh King' College 100/. pdMISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural.. .100/. sh 9/. pd 6,000 41. per cent. British American Land Company . . 2. /. pd 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 1004 sh.. 28/. pd 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canazla Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 20,000 1/. 6s. General Steam . Navigation ...151. sh. 131. pd 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 11. London Corn. Sale Rooms... ...... Av. 751. sh 8,000 Caoutchouc Company °5/. sh. 12i/. pd 590,0001. New Brunswick Land Company .. ... .9)4 pd 2,754 5/. par cent. Reversionary lnterestSoc...lool. sh. !OW. pd 2,633 51. per cent. Ditt o N ew 100/. sh. 701. pd 4,000 10,000 6s, _ Van Die neri's Land 1001. sh. 171. pd LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, JULY 2. 1838. BANKS. 1,500,009/. 6/. p. ct. Ear 01 Scotland 83/. Gs Bd. sh. all pd 133/. 2,000,0 , 1C1. 51 p. ct. Rft7-t of Scotland 1001. sh. all pd 14/. 500,0)01. Bp. ct. Br. ctsh Linen Company 100/. sh. all pd 240/. 3,000,006/. 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 1501. 5.000,000 c. n. et. .44.tional lOO/.sh. 10/. pd 161/. 2,000,000!. 61. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 50/. pd 831. 4,000,04;0/. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 30/. pd 561. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250.0005 h 6}p. ct. Scottish Union QO/ sh. 1/. pd 275. ,500 f,l p. ct. Hercules 100/ . s h . 10/ . p d 13 1 15 i 1n(',000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....101, eh. all pd 8! 15s, . 50,000 6p. et. North British 2001. sh. 101. jul 181. 1,000 sp. et. Caledonian Fire WO/. sh. 101. pd 191 Os 5,000 Op. et. Edinburgh life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 14/10s 100,000 31 p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd 710 s MISCELLANEOUS 4,810 ... ..... Edin. and °las Un. Cana1...50/. sh. all pd ''..2./. Ditto Allocated 961. sh. all pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water . 2 51. sh. all pd ::' ,6 J. Carrot) Iron Company 250/. 14. 411 Pd V I ; 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundcry., WV 'sh fimi• Pd ""• 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh 4 Leith 01iis 20L sh. 161. pd SL 4,500 101 w cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. all pd 611. 4,450 10 per cont. Glasgow O a s 251. A), all l 1311 7w 7i per cent. Leith Coal Gas 9 0/. sh. all pc! 45/ 1,2(0 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Re.way...so/. sii 313 10 1. 5000 5 per cent. Equitable Loan Conletny "a sh. pd 111. 113 1021- 10'2 100 i 11 16,i 234 12! 50 23:- 71 196 114 301 50 1 4 6, 171 2q t 45 THE UNITED STATES and CANADA. From the Correspondent of the Morning Chron'ele.) PHILADELPHIA.. JULY 19.—Tice business of resumption is settled in the State of Pennsylvania. While the United States and other Banks were discussing the when and the how, and, to all appearance, adopting measures calculated to lead to further delay, Governor Ritncr issued his proclamation, fixing the 13ili of -August as the day for recommencing specie payrnen!c, and stating his d,terinimeion to enforc , - the edict by all the powt:Ts placed at Id; disposal he the hoe. Tha clI, - et of the meaaute has been most salutary; inasmuch .13 it hes restor;:d cenfidctice between the banks and the people, and greatly improved the statc of the money market in this and the neighbouring Commonwealths. Before it appeared, all was uncertainty in relation to resumption of specie payments. Now, every thing is re tinced to certainty, for nothing has transpired since its publication to induce the belief that a single bank will en deavour` to protract or evade ite provisions. The object of Mr. Biddle, in opposing specie payments on the day first proposed in the bank convention (to wit, the Ist of August) still remains a mystery; and the best friends of the United States Bank regret that he thought fit to adopt such a course. It is, indeed, affirmed that his desire was that all the banks of the Atlantic States should have concurred in the measure, and that the resumption should have been simultaneous at a more distant day, for the appointment of which a convention was to be called. It was reported a few days since that the steam-boat len ville had exploded in Tenessee, killing 500 Indians and others on board. lam happy to be enabled to contradict tho rumour; it is untrue. Letters from Mexico inform us that the blockade of the Gulf' ports by the French has greatly increased in rigour, and that all vessels appearing off the coast with an apparent intention making any Mexican port, shall be made prizes of, except of-war and British packets. This regulation has caustu j m uc h dissatisfaction in the United States, and particularl,y at New Orleans, where the merchants complain that it all , J w s a latitude of capture extremely injurious to American commerce. On the 13th of June another ultimatum was presentt,d by the French, importing that if their claims were not met by the 3d of July, both Vera Cruz and Tampico would be bombarded. Imme diately following upon this intelligence, we have a rumour "that the terms had been refused, and Vera Cruz attacked ; " but as I cannot trace the statement to any authentic source, I pat no confidence in its probability. It is certain, however, that if the ultimatum should be rejected, the French must be prompt and vigorous in their measures, else the fatal disease, el yo. mite (the yellow fever and black vomit), will commence its ra vages; and such a pestilence is far more likely to thin the Gallic ranks than are the guns of San Juan de Ulloa. There is no port in the world where the " black vomit" is more fre quent or more fatal amongst Europeans, than Vera Cruz, owing to the extreme heat of the climate, and its low, fenny location ; but a very few miles inland place strangers beyond the reach of danger. The most sickly months are August, September, and October. All accounts from the Canadas and the frontier are pacific. Even rumour, with her thousand tongues, has ce ase d to excite and alarm us with s t atements of battle and of broil. The great assemblage of insurgents in the London district turns out to be a miserable hoax, got up, as the Canada papers say, by a few of the militia, who were anxious to con tinue in the receipt of Government pay, and therefore forged awful accounts of invasion, which bad no existence in fact, with the hope of inducing the authorities to rescind their orders for disbanding the militia. The United States troops, under Captain Gwynn, have captured the buccaneer Johnstone's famous long-boat and two of his men on one of the Thousand Islands. They acted in friendly co. operation with the British soldiers. Johnstone himself has hitherto contrived to elude pursuit, concealing himself in that worse than Cretan labyrinth. A large quantity of his arms and ammunition we; captured. Lord Durham and suite arc enjoying the cool atmosphere at Niagara Falls, where a military review on a magnificent scale will take place in a few days. His Lord ship's policy for pacificating the Canadas promises the most desirable results, and is generally admired by the press of this country. " Justice to the guilty, and mercy to the mis guided" is hi s max i m, and an excellent one itis. The ring leaders of the revolt and a few ultra Tories are the only per sons who find fault with it—the former, because it affords them no new ground of complaint; and the latter, because it has disappointed their thirst of revenge and war. It has been ru moured here for several days that Governor Arthur intended to resign, in consequence of his deeming the course of Lord Durham a mistaken clemency ; but as yet the report wants confirmation. A gentleman in this city received a letter yesterday from Toronto, which contains the following passage:—" Both the provinces are now quiet. Law and order are restored, and business, together with all the peaceful occupations of life, go on as usual. It is really amusing to us here to see the tremendous accounts headed " Fresh Troubles in Canada," " More blood spilled," &e. &c., in the papers on your side of the line. Why, my dear sir, not one in a hundred of them has any foundation in truth ; and if you should visit us during the summer you will find yourself in a country which, at pre sent, is quite as peacef u l as P ennsy l van i a. Come, then, and join us in an excursion to the Ottawa." The excessive heat with which the United States have been afflicted for the last few weeks has moderated from 5 to 10 degrees, and the thermometer in this city now ranges from 86 to 95 degrees at three p.m. on the shady sides of the streets. The effects of the hot weather have been serious. In New York, during the week ending on Saturday last, it is computed that 71 deaths occurred, in one way and the other, of grown persons, from heat ; and in this city 17. The interments were more than double the usual average in New York, and nearly treble in Philadelphia. This arises chiefly from a disease which attacks infants, called the "sum mer complaint" (dysentery). In this city the week's burials were 231, 134 of the number being of children under five years of age. The Atlantic cities, however, are remarkably free from fever and all contagious or epidemic disorders. In the west, the fatal " milk sickness," w hi c h pro d uces death in a few hou rs , has prevailed in several of the States on the Ohio and Mississippi. The mystery of this disease (indigenous to that cosintry) has never yet been fathomed. It is supposed to be caused by the cattle eating a certain unknown herb, which poisons the milk. The Governor of Kentucky has published a proclamation, offering a reward of 1,000 dollars to any one who can discover the origin of the disease, in order that it may be counteracted. The cotton exported from the United States for the year ending Sept. 30, 1837, was 438,924,566 lbs. Sea Island, 5,286,971 lbs. ; value, 63,240,102 dolls. The coffee imported in the same year was 88,140,403 lbs. ; value, 8,657,760 dollss The tea imported in the same year, 1 6,273,742 lbs. ; value„ 5,901,695 dollars. THE AMERICAN MONEY MARKET. (From the New York Daily Express, July 19.) WEDNESDAY, The Money Market of this city may be said to b e easy— for those who have what is considered sufficiee:t securities, that is, a man can borrow m oney enoug h , if i ne has what is money to pledge for the loan of it. For such security, money, indeed, is seeking an investment, or rather money is seeking a change in the form it has. The moneyed men are putting their feelers out cautiously. Having been bitten sadly, many of them, by the rage for note shaving, when all sorts of notes were shaved, provided the interest was high enough, they have now rushed to the other extreme of ultra-caution, which, how ever, is rapidly giving way to a confidence in sound business transactions. This caution is a natural result of the disposi tion that existed a year and a half ago to run extreme risks, and when it gives way, as it undoubtedly will to bona fide business paper, business will again flow in its natural channels. The day is not far off when moneyed men will again dis• count any sort of paper, provided the interest promised is large enough There is a great deal of capital with us now awaiting an investment. Some of it is employing itself in Treasury notes, some in State Stocks, and some in Bank Stocks. As yet it does not, to any great extent, seek those investments which arc likely to interest and employ the great masses of the com munity, the middle and the labouring classes ; but as it ex hausts itself in storks, it will go into more practical opera tions. The manufacturing establishments of the city and country are yet in a very languishing state for the want of money, and the want of the demanded means of raising money. Thus the labouring classes have no sensible relief, though there is now no actual suffering. Manufacturers, the fact is, have in a great many cases taken to farming, particu larly in New England and New York. Of building there is but little going on for a city so large as ours. The up town lots are but lots yet, though there is an actual demand for dwelling-houses for the accommodation of people. As for the shops and stores, their time is not to come till May next. When capital takes a turn to set the springs of industry in motion—to push forward our railroads, to extend our city, to set the workshops again in motion; that is when credit and confidence are restored the labouring] classes will then have the benefit of the easy money market of which we speak. Exchange on London to-day was 108 to 1081, and this for the packet to-morrow, but not much doing. The approaching resumption of specie payments by the banks of Pennsylvania, leading in their train the banks of the South and West, continue to operate favourably upon the do mestic exchanges. In connection with this resumption, ca pitalists are also directing their attention to the purchase of southern and western funds for the purpose of a temporary investment. When the discount is great, as on Mobile and Mississippi, the profit would be very large, but the capitalists are wary of their funds, as the time of resumption is consi dered very uncertain. For New Orleans, Cbarlestonvid,Vir ginia, Balti more , an d S avanna h f unds, there is some avidity. STOCKS WEDNESDAY, P. 74.—Thet;;;;:tious in stocks to-day were much larger than they have been during the former part of the week, and in some descriptions an advance was realised. The money market is very easy ; any amount can be borrowed on good stock at seven per cent premium ; while such is the case no material fall can take place. The absence of capi talists and stock dealers from the city has a temporary ten dency to limit the amount of business. .. . . C API TAL PUNISHMENTS.— A r equlSltloll IS in ri, ss of signature in the city of Lincoln, of which the following is progress of signature its the city of Liucoin, of which the followibg is the copy:—" To the Worshipful the Mayor of Lincoln—We, the t n h o e ds rsign _, ed respectfully request that you will be pleased to convene at per i o d , a p u bli c meeting of the inhabitants of Lincoln a neighbourhood thereof, to tak e i nto consideration the expe. yQf for early Parlia di m warngent patiosFc to the Queen's Illajesty and th e two d j 'c o a nuest he some es of , ying that the Punishment of death may be abolished in all cases whatsoever, within her Majesty's dominions." signed; not with any feelings of This requisition will be. numerously sympathy fcr the young criminal whose callous heart has been capable of guilt of the deepest dye, but fr om a conviction that the momentary pu— oishmcnt of death is of far less effect upon the living than other means which might be used as an appropriate visitation for crime.—Lincoho Gawtte. r i. i V , ni ns,